I've been progressing very, very slowly on the Wolf Tribe, with a lot of time spent going back and doing touch-ups or finding recessed areas I've missed. Between that and the "15 different shades of brown" color palette, I felt like I needed a quick and easy win at the hobby table.
I think my second Tribal warband, my Northstar Neanderthals, are going to be done almost entirely in speed paints just to make the process faster.
A dip into my Pile of Opportunity later, I pulled out "Borley, Male Ghost" from Reaper Miniatures' Dark Heavens Legends line of metal figures. Sculpted by Bob Ridolfi (my absolute favorite sculptor for undead figures), I reckoned it would be a fast and easy paint job.
Over a coat of white primer, I painted the entire figure with GW "Nilakh Oxide.". This is a fairly thin blue-green, intended for creating verdigris effects on metals. Over white, it functions like a wash, pooling pigment in the recesses. Once that had dried, I gave the whole figure a light drybrush of Reaper "Misty Gray" before giving the eye sockets a light glaze of GW "Bloodletter" (an out of production glaze). I picked out the eyes themselves with Reaper "Phoenix Red" and finally dotted the pupils with my old bottle of Vallejo "Golden Yellow."
I think overall he looks like a glowing spectral figure, with extra-glowy red eyes, and I'm really happy with how he turned out.
So what's next?
I've got a few games of Fistful of Lead on the schedule at my local game store in the coming weeks, and I think I'll need to paint 2 or 3 figures for those.
I've also picked up the PDF of "Devilry Afoot," a solo/co-op folk horror game from Nic Wright at Irregular Wars. The 17th century setting grabbed me more than The Silver Bayonet's Napoleonic era, and I do love my solo games. The ghost I've painted above join the bestiary for this game; I've got Ghouls, Vampires and Werewolves already, so I don't need much more than just Witches, Revenants and Innocents (NPC villagers for the player-characters to rescue) to add.
Despite not intending to order anything until next payday, I had a bad day at work yesterday and responded by ordering a couple packs from Bloody Miniatures to represent my Hunters. C'est la vie.
Figures Purchased in 2025: 90
Figures Painted in 2025: 86
